Cyber-era productivity can't produce enough jobs and CEO's can not hide it any longer.

[CK_John]

Technology is starting to drain even former tech safe jobs, which has shocked economic guru's. Just look at the EU and bubble bust in Japan, and recent worries of job loss in China.

It is time for the DEM party to step up and start the discussion about
lowering the SocSec age to 50. Let's get ahead of the curve.


Layoff floodgates:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024572381

[DURHAM D]

1. oh brother. this again. nt

[CK_John]

2. Got any solutions, it's not going away, and it is finally becoming obvious.

[Laelth]

3. I find this response puzzling.

What am I missing?



-Laelth

[X_Digger]

4. The OP is one in a looong line of OPs by this poster.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4553837

He's cheerleading for the TPP.

[Laelth]

6. Interesting. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. At least this version of the show isn't about impeachment

It's performance art. Let the OP have his fun.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. The only way that works is if you simultaneously raise taxes

To pay for expanded costs of dramatically lowering retirement age.

Better to find work that is more value-added and directed toward problems that need solving rather than taking so much valuable and skilled labor out of the market.

[CK_John]

8. This solution lets the long term unemployed 50 and over a lifeline while they

rework their lives. There is no requirement to retire and more importantly you can do both, work and collect SS.

[hedgehog]

9. It's all about the distrbution of the wealth - go back to the 1920's

when the factories were putting out products that farmers (who were a larger part of the population back then) couldn't afford. Eventually everything came grinding to a halt with the Great Depression. So we don't need more jobs, we need better means of distributing the fruits of higher productivity across the population.

[CK_John]

10. That would take about 25-40 yrs to adjust, if.... we admitted this was a productivity problem

and had a plan to do this now for your so called "better means".

[hedgehog]

11. Actually - if we started taxing all income for Social Security, we might raise enough to allow

people to retire at age 50 - thereby spreading the benefits of productivity. For comparison - we no longer need the labor of children to manufacture goods or bring home money to support the family.